Ohio Lawmakers Bail Out Coal Plants, Boost Trump
On the campaign trail in 2016, President Trump promised to save the coal industry by eliminating environmental safeguards and cutting limits on greenhouse gas …
Climate Change Will Hit Economies Hardest in Trump States, Report Finds
A recent report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program has found that states President Trump won in the 2016 election – including F…
Election Outcomes Lead to Climate Action Across U.S.
In Washington, D.C., this month, climate change headlines have focused on the Green New Deal and the establishment of the new U.S. House Select Committee on th…
Election Boosts Chances of Climate, Environmental Action in the States
Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) (Photo: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan) Pro-environment gubernatorial candidates were vic…
As Washington Waffles, Climate Action Shifts to the States
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) (Photo: Diana Robinson) A report issued last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is alarming and unsettling…